«Печатное слово приобретало все большее значение…»
“The printed word has become increasingly important”…

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article reviewed the totality of certain historical, political, general cultural factors that influenced the processes of Russian-Finnish interaction, which influenced on the processes of Russian-Finnish interaction, as well as the formation and existence of the Russian-language press in the Grand Duchy of Finland. The study of the number of selected episodes from the history of Russian-language periodicals of the late XIX – early XX centuries gives reasons to conclude that it was during this period that the printed word became increasingly important for the formation of socio-political, national-patriotic, general cultural sentiments in both Russian and Finnish society. The positions of the three reviewed periodicals are different both in their dominant ideological attitudes and in the readership. The pro-government Finnish newspaper (editor: lawyer, monarchist Ivan Bazhenov) being the official mouthpiece of the targeted nationalist russification policy of tsarism, appeals to the entire population of the Grand Duchy. The liberal “Russian voice” (editor: liberal professor Konstantin Arabazhin) advocates for the humanitarian values, the unity of nations based on common material, spiritual, cultural and legal interests; her readers are mostly Russian intelligentsia. The radical “Days of our life” (editor: member of the White movement, the poet of the “white idea” Ivan Savin), on the one hand, deny all the gains of the Russian Revolution and sharply criticize inactive “fathers-emigrants”, on the other hand, they utopianly rely on the coming consolidation of the youth “scattering” in the struggle against Bolshevism, not only in word but in deed; its addressee is Russian emigration, mainly youth.

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